😞
Exclusive: #NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile for a collective follow-up with the House Science commitee and NSF leadership
Details and template at https://grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
Update: A new round of these RWRs appear to have been sent out today (Feb 4). Keep those letters coming!
Thank you #NSF National Science Foundation for 75 years. 250 staffers were able to gather for a NON-OFFICIAL commemoration photo out to the west side of the building, May 20, 2025. Quite an effort by people who still do their best in the US at the federal level. Quite a story here, too.
https://www.science.org/content/article/photo-subversive-nsf-staff-overcome-obstacles-75th-anniversary-portrait
#Science
From @davidho on 🦋 5 minutes ago:
I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy.
They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/national-science-foundation-staff-booted-from-headquarters
___
Me:
My NSF CAREER proposal got recommended by the review panel and PO, but denied by “upper management” who has serious misgivings on the proposed research. Will hear more from the PO tomorrow.
This has been devastating, as we have worked so hard on this, and have put on so much hope/stake on it.
I work as a scientist in the US because I believed academic freedom, but it seems not existing anymore.
I guess it’s time to really move on… I will seriously look for an alternative career.
#Science #NSF
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/116657625572527562
I don’t know how high-up admin denied my case. Maybe these MAGA, or maybe just bootlickers.
#nsf
House Science Committee members Zoe Lofgren and Whitesides write to White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios on the black hole of where NSF money is going: "We have no reason to be surprised that you chose to continue this pattern of obfuscation and disrespect of the Committee’s oversight..."
Trump fires NSF's oversight board | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
